Top-50 Websites - Ranked by Unique Visitors; Digg.com, Facebook, Flickr sky rocketing
Written by Jay Meattle (contact - e-mail) -- October 30th, 2007 | Recommend This
Key Observations (Winners list):
- The Emergence of Content Sharing: 5 of the top 10 gainers having something to do with sharing content (YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Wikipedia, Digg).
- Traffic to Facebook.com has increased by 14.6M, but hold on…traffic to MySpace.com has also increased by 10.2M during the same time period.
- AdultFriendFinder.com continues to thrive with nearly 24M unique visitors (up 8.8M this year), but look out AFF, Fling.com is catching up with you quickly. Fling has gained a whopping 17.4M visitors in the past 12 months to reach 18.7M unique visitors in September.
- Rebranding of Cingular to AT&T helped out ATT.com. All Cingular.com traffic is now channeled to wireless.att.com
- Digg has been growing faster than Facebook!
| Biggest gainers: | Sept ‘07 Unique Visitors |
Sept ‘06 | Change |
| 1. youtube.com | 47,417,527 | 25,860,510 | 21,557,017 |
| 2. flickr.com | 25,278,501 | 7,382,573 | 17,895,929 |
| 3. fling.com | 18,702,338 | 1,284,273 | 17,418,065 |
| 4. wikipedia.org | 51,648,465 | 35,650,551 | 15,997,914 |
| 5. digg.com | 18,401,139 | 2,854,646 | 15,546,493 |
| 6. google.com | 124,544,834 | 109,080,418 | 15,464,416 |
| 7. att.com | 17,984,849 | 3,221,543 | 14,763,306 |
| 8. facebook.com | 24,211,448 | 9,545,359 | 14,666,089 |
| 9. turn.com | 14,296,976 | 628,718 | 13,668,258 |
| 10. yahoo.com | 130,078,549 | 116,961,340 | 13,117,209 |
Key Observations (Losers list):
- Traffic declined to only 8 domains in the Top 50 (Sept ‘07).
- Two Amazon properties on the list - IMDB.com and Amazon.com
- Two Microsoft properties on the list - Passport.net and MSN.com. My guess is that most of their lost traffic went to Live.com, MSN’s new portal. Live.com is up 10.2M unique visitors during the same time period.
| Biggest losers: | Sept ‘07 Unique Visitors |
Sept ‘06 | Change |
| 1. aol.com | 62,201,981 | 72,859,584 | (10,657,602) |
| 2. passport.net | 16,605,856 | 23,056,010 | (6,450,155) |
| 3. msn.com | 72,402,712 | 78,701,909 | (6,299,197) |
| 4. geocities.com | 16,086,159 | 20,300,659 | (4,214,500) |
| 5. amazon.com | 42,420,889 | 45,417,807 | (2,996,918) |
| 6. weather.com | 16,002,964 | 18,709,799 | (2,706,835) |
| 7. expedia.com | 13,564,006 | 14,087,085 | (523,079) |
| 8. imdb.com | 16,390,522 | 16,705,447 | (314,925) |
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October 30th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Top-50 Websites: Digg.com, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook sky rocketing; The Emergence of Content Sharing
Top-50 U.S. Websites (September 2007). Digg has been growing faster than Facebook!
October 31st, 2007 at 2:13 am
It would be nice to get an additional post with more detailed demographics - if possible.
One valuable insight would be the median education and income levels of the visitors to each site in the Top 50.
Also which visitors are primarily consumers vrs business or corporate. One would presume that Chase and Career builder and live and CNN might be worlds apart from Coupons and aaValue
November 19th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
It’s craigslist.org, not .com
November 20th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I’m thinking at it would be good, following on Search Engines to see results segmented by industry type. Who’s the most searched upon computer, software, social web, blog, etc. http://epaper.hubspot.com is going to rank very low! http://www.hubspot might rank very high though!
November 23rd, 2007 at 1:42 pm
I found that traffic from social bookmarking is un targeted , no conversions on revenue , Search engines are best :)
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December 3rd, 2007 at 12:39 am
Interesting how Yahoo still ranks above Google. I guess when you weigh together all Google owned domains though (like gmail, youtube, etc) they are really tops.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:15 am
If you add up all the Yahoo domains it ranks above Google, according to both ComsScore and Nielsen Net Ratings. For a so-called “has-been” site, Yahoo and its various properties (Flickr, for example) are doing very well.
January 9th, 2008 at 10:53 am
i am surprirsed that yahoo is still getting huge traffic
January 18th, 2008 at 4:11 am
i can’t believe yahoo it’s the first!!!!
January 24th, 2008 at 6:04 am
I would have put google 1st by a long shot.
Well done yahoo
February 5th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Oh to have that many visitors coming to my websites. Great list.
February 8th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
wow. thanks for the informative list!
February 14th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I fail to understand why Yahoo is at the top..I am sure all Google services when put together out-class Yahoo.
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Yahoo is higher than Goggle? No Way!
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Since MS has their .com site, plus live and MSN they would appear higher on the list. Then look at Google who is in the top 500 about 25 times with their country specific sites (I wrote an article about this last month). I would love to see the chart of these mixes were put together. MS and Google would basically be the only 2 companies on the interent.
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